I have a feeling that his lyrics are likely his own, but what “music” he produces is likely the work of another person or people.
I’ll save my “people singing songs they didn’t write/people doing covers/people sampling famous songs/people sampling beats/melodies/etc” for another thread.
Why do you say that?
I see what you did there. cough
I have to admit that I was kind of shocked to hear “Rude Boy” on the mainstream pop station one evening. Not that there hasn’t been a ton more offensive stuff produced, nor that thinly-veiled euphemisms haven’t been aired for decades. It just seemed so much more blatant than what I’m used to hearing on the radio.
I don’t find it offensive, as such, but I have told my 9 year old she shouldn’t sing along with such songs as “Last Friday Night,” even though it’s OK to listen to them.
Because kids killing kids was a huge problem all through the 80s and early 90s in the ghettos, and it barely registered outside of the ghetto as a problem. If anything, it only registered as a problem because people feared it would spread out and hit the rest of the country.
It was only when middle class white kids started killing and dying that it became a national issue. Plus when white middle class kids go on a killing spree, they tend to focus on schools which people would like to think are safe havens.
I have another theory called my second theory, or my theory number 2, which I could expand, if I was asked.
In the 1960s it was the man (The Grass Roots – “Let’s Live For Today”) who sang:
Now it’s the woman who wants to feel you deep inside of her. Metaphors are cool. And once they’re reversed you can never go back.
And here’s an apt lyric:
I heard songs like this when I was young. I’d say I’m jaded, and ‘run run run from my gun’ isn’t too intimidating.
